Kemal R Seitveliyev wrote:
Well, it actually does not run very fast on my computer. Windows 2000 runs
at acceptable speeds.. Linux sort of
slows down substantially with every extra program started... I have
That sounds like you don't have a swap partition, the results of "swapon
-s" should show something like:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda10 partition 248968 107692 -1
If there isn't any swap space at all, or it doesn't say "partition", you
need to get some space on your drive to dedicate to swap. It's just not
believable that a properly configured Linux system on a 300MHz processor
with 96MB ram will run slower than the same machine running Windows 2000.
a Toshiba Portege 7010ct with 300 mhz processor, 96 mb ram, and have what
I assume to be woody - it got network-installed three days ago, so it's
No reason to assume it is. See your /etc/apt/sources.list. It contains
lines like:
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
basically if the word after the URL is 'woody' or 'testing' you have woody.